Author Question: When a dispute brought in a state court involves incidents that occurred in more than one state, ... (Read 59 times)

jilianpiloj · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

When a dispute brought in a state court involves incidents that occurred in more than one state, what problem may arise?
a. an Erie Railroad v. Tompkins issue of federal versus state common law b. a real and substantial party problem
c. a quasi-in-rem problem
d. a conflict-of-law problem
e. all of the other choices are correct

Question 2

According to the Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co v. Tompkins, where Tompkins sued a New York company that owned a train that hit him in Pennsylvania, the doctrine of Swift v. Tyson, which held that federal courts exercising jurisdiction on the ground of diversity of citizenship need not, in matters of general jurisprudence, apply the common law of the state as declared by its highest court, introduced:
a. discrimination against state citizens by non-state citizens b. discrimination against non-state citizens by state citizens c. a substantial party problem
d. a stare decisis problem
e. an ultimate jurisdiction problem